Health safety manager (job description)

Job description 002 S
Occupational health and safety (OHS) manager
Department: administration
Work place: administration
Reports to: plant manager
Under his authority: OHS organizer
Working hours: 35h, 5 days / week
Can replace: OHS organizer
Can be replaced by: plant manager
Knowledge, skills and abilities
School diploma or equivalent
Significant knowledge in OHS management standards
Knowledge of a foreign language
Can listen, help, explain, coach, animate, train, coordinate, analyze
Can be trusted to keep sensitive information secure
Summary
Organize, manage and control the application of the OHS management system to ensure a safe workplace
Duties and responsibilities
Support the management for the implementation of the OHS policy
Develop, coordinate, communicate and improve the realization of the OHS policy
Make sure regularly that the OHS management system is established, implemented, maintained and improved in
compliance with the standards in force
Commit himself permanently in improving the effectiveness of the OHS management system
Control and improve the OHS documentary system
Hold up to date the applicable regulatory texts (legal watch)
Prepare the management review
Plan the emergency preparedness and response
Coordinate all OHS activities and continual improvement
Plan and manage the activities of internal and external OHS audits
Follow up the preventive and corrective actions
Propose and monitor the OHS training program
Manage incident investigation and reporting to the relevant authorities
Take part in the risk analysis of new processes and products
Represent the company for the official organizations related to occupational health and safety
Communicate in time known information with other departments
Principal rights
Freeze a delivery and/or stop a production if he judges that OHS commitment is not respected any more
Ask and receive all necessary information for the achievement of its duties
Stop the use of nonconforming documents with regards to the requirements of the OHS management system
Increase its qualification in agreement with the training programme of the company
The present job description gives a non exhaustive outline of the duties, responsibilities and rights. It does not
describe all the tasks which the employee must achieve. This list can be modified in relation to the concrete
situations and will be updated periodically
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